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Re: Taking Damage behind Cover and Closed Doors

@NNeil6991 Hardly shilling to state facts mate 😛 The only things you can spend money on in game are cosmetics and stat trackers extra to the ones you get for free. Nothing at all that impacts on gameplay. There's no obligation at all on anyone to give ANY money to the devs if they're not happy with the product. I've already had more hours out of Apex than most games I've paid full price for recently. I bought the battlepass to encourage them to keep providing the service and improvements.

I agree with you that developing games AFTER release has become a worrying trend in AAA games : but when you're not charged for the game, I don't understand how you can possibly complain.

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NNeil6991
6 years ago
@AnlbrdI It would be messed up to complain about a free game, but since this game requires a percentage of its users to buy the battle passes and especially the cosmetics to maintain that free status, it isn't actually free. The battle pass isn't even what keeps the game free, as its main job is to maintain a healthy player count, attract new players, and, most importantly, introduce more cosmetics into the shop. It's the skins and cosmetics that generate the revenue, and if If people stopped buying skins and cosmetics EA would either axe this game or change it into a pay to win scheme. Charging 20 dollars to fans of the game is typical EA greed, and having us QA test it as well because they didn't want to wait for it to be ready for launch and miss the BR bubble is what is "galling" about it.